Here's A Little More 'Common Sense'

I take strong exception to James Royster's letter "Objects to 'Common Sense' Claim" [June 17], in which he claims that those who advocate stricter gun control demean the intelligence and character of those of those who oppose it when they call for "common sense" laws.

I challenge the letter writer to defend the character, intelligence and "common sense" of any citizen who would undermine efforts to prevent people on the "do not fly" list from legally purchasing firearms by portraying that step as weakening the Second Amendment.

For another example, almost 75 percent of even NRA members support universal background checks, i.e., closing the gun show loophole. Who knows in whose hands these guns will end up? And I don't see the NRA railing against the registration of cars and dogs as it does the registration of lethal weapons.

None of these stricter gun control policies would deny gun ownership to any law-abiding, responsible American, but they are opposed tooth and nail by the NRA. I challenge anyone to make some common sense out of that.